Word: term
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...from their purposed courses. It is plain that, unless the University is to be removed from men who have not large means, the Corporation must do something; it is equally plain that unless the Corporation can have assurance that a second dining-hall will settle matters for a considerable term of years, this second dining-hall will never be built by them. If the arrangement of one man to a seat is insisted upon, then the second hall would not settle matters, and this is to say that the second hall would not be built. The rational solution...
Yesterday the Reverend Mr. Crothers of St. Paul began his spring term of service here. Far as many other University Preachers have travelled to officiate here, no one else has ever been called upon to meet such inconvenience in this way as has Mr. Crothers...
...twenty-four hours in the day, President Eliot would have the student devote ten to work. This proposition may sound extreme. It must be taken with certain modifications and explanations. In the general term "work," are included all lectures and library work, together with the time necessarily consumed in passing from one form of occupation to another. Moreover, Sunday is always to be free from work, as is an extra half-day in each week...
There is a movement on foot in the English universities to render their postgraduate research departments more popular among foreign students. The reason that these universities are not more popular among advanced American students is because they have no post-graduate work, in the American sense of the term. The "Tripos" system at Cambridge of dividing all men into three classes of honor at the final examinations, demands most sever work with a coach for a long succession of years, and, after the final examination upon the success or failure in which depends the whole work in the previous years...
...term of Chauncy M. Depew '56, as member of the corporation of Yale University expires this year...